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Newly empowered Islamist leaders stood up for Arab democracy Friday, saying extremists need to be brought into the fold and chiding the West for objectifying women and income inequalities.
An igloo protest camp sprouting up amid $500-a-night hotels and security cordons at the Swiss resort of Davos seems to serve a warning to the world's rich and powerful gathering here: Beware, or you might be sleeping in the snow next year, too.
The satirical French newspaper whose offices were firebombed this week fought back Friday against efforts to interrupt its operations, starting a blog and publishing more copies of a controversial edition.
At least five foreign oil and gas companies are back in Libya to work on resuscitating production, a Libyan official said Friday, as the country's interim leadership sought guidance from U.N. and other experts on stabilizing the nation following strongman Moammar Gadhafi's ouster.
They beat up black and Arab football fans, terrorize immigrant neighborhoods, smash Muslim and Jewish gravestones, preach hate and rally support online. Norway's attacks laid bare a fringe of flourishing racist anger around Europe — and exposed the risk that it could erupt into violence anywhere, anytime.
Christine Lagarde has traveled tirelessly to save the euro and blazed a trail for women from Chicago to Paris in halls of power long dominated by men.
Greece's opposition leader wasn't invited to Thursday's European Union summit but he became its hapless star.
Anne Sinclair is sacrificing millions of her family's fortune on her husband's bail and house arrest. Dominique Strauss-Kahn declared his love for his wife in a public letter, and blew her a kiss across a New York courtroom where he was charged with trying to rape a hotel maid.
French authorities have filed preliminary terrorism charges against four men as part of a probe into a suspected extremist recruitment network.
French president Nicolas Sarkozy has agreed in principle with Libya's opposition Transitional National Council to travel to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi, a top presidential aide said Friday.
Japan's nuclear crisis reverberated in atomic power-friendly countries Wednesday, with China saying it would hold off on approving new nuclear plants and French lawmakers questioning top energy executives about the safety of their reactors.
In a major turnaround, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his indebted government are abandoning a tax ceiling for big earners he once hailed as key to modernizing France and luring investors.
Paris prosecutors on Wednesday ordered John Galliano to stand trial over alleged racial insults — a development welcomed by the famous fashion designer's attorney, who said his client has been the victim of a "veritable lynching" in the court of public opinion.
Exxon Mobil Corp. signed a deal with Russia's Rosneft on Thursday to develop oil and gas resources in the Black Sea, a new boost for the country's lucrative energy sector despite concerns about the challenges of investing there.
It was meant to be an effort to plug Twitter users into the conversation at the summit of European power. Instead it ended in very public embarrassment.
The European Parliament moved Thursday to freeze the assets of Russian officials involved in the death in prison of a corporate lawyer, and urged Russia to do more to punish those who commit crimes against Kremlin critics.
Airbus will replace engines on new A380 superjumbos slated for completion next year to maintain delivery targets, the planemaker's chief operating officer said Wednesday, after an explosion last month revealed problems with some of the plane's Rolls Royce engines.
France is ready to help develop and pay for a U.S.-led European anti-missile shield — but only as a backup, not a replacement, for this country's nuclear deterrent, President Nicolas Sarkozy's office said Friday.
A rebuilt Prussian palace in Berlin. High-speed rail from Lisbon to Kiev. A new visitor center for Britain's Stonehenge. They're just some of the big-ticket European projects put on hold by the continent's government debt crisis.
Google Inc. is loosening restrictions on using brand names in its lucrative European advertising business, a move that puts a greater burden on big-name retailers to protect their trademarks online.
Electricite de France announced a plunge in profits Friday but was boosted by a surprisingly high euro6.9 billion ($9.02 billion) bid by East Asia's richest businessman for the utility's British electricity grid.
International police agency Interpol launched an unusual appeal Monday to the global public to report sightings of 26 leading fugitives — whether on the street or on a Facebook page.
Officially, France has no single grand plan to cut the enormous national debt that has contributed to fears about Europe's financial stability.
France's Prime Minister Francois Fillon on Friday rebuffed unions angry over plans to raise the retirement age by two years, urging the French to show "courage" and make an unprecedented effort to cut the enormous national debt.
Monaco will see a royal wedding in the summer of 2011, Prince Albert II was quoted as saying Thursday as his future father-in-law described him a "nice chap."
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